Define default earned value settings (P6 Professional Only)

Choose Admin, Admin Preferences.
Click the Earned Value tab.
In the Technique for Computing Performance Percent Complete section, select the default completion percentage method you want to use for computing earned-value percent complete when calculating an activity's earned value.
In the Technique for Computing ETC section, select the default method for computing earned value estimate-to-complete you want to use when calculating an activity's Estimate to Complete (ETC) value.
In the Earned Value Calculation section, choose how you want to calculate earned value. Choose to use the baseline's At Completion values and current dates, planned values with planned dates, or planned values with current dates when calculating earned value from a baseline.

The current dates options use the Start/Finish dates for an activity or resource assignment.

Tip

For each project, earned value is calculated using the project baseline or each user's defined primary baseline, depending on a preference setting on the Settings tab of Project Details.